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Serial rapist drops discharge bid, pursues bail

Tuesday, October 05, 2021 | 3100 Views |

FRANCISTOWN: A 32-year-old man imprisoned to a cumulative period of 45 years has decided to abandon his application to overturn all his convictions and sentences concerning all his offences.

The applicant, Thatayaone Nka of Monarch location, attracted the name ‘Forest Evil’ as he preyed on his victims, mostly secondary and tertiary school learners in the bushes after giving them a lift in his car.

In 2017, then Magistrate Dumisani Basupi made an order for Nka’s 15-year sentences to run consecutively, which resulted in him having to spend 45 years in jail.

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Serial rapist drops discharge bid, pursues bail

FRANCISTOWN: A 32-year-old man imprisoned to a cumulative period of 45 years has decided to abandon his application to overturn all his convictions and sentences concerning all his offences.

42 out of 45 bodies of Limpopo bus crash victims identified

Selefu

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